Want to use the rotary cutter on circle patches, ellipse patches and
patches containing freehand and bezier curves? Use the Backdoor!

Quilt-Pro
4 users can also cut joined patches that use the Arc.

Editor's
Note: You can use the rotary cutter on the geometric patches, but Quilt-Pro
does not cut anything related to a curve like a circle, ellipse, pie, arcs, freehand,
or bezier curves. Frank has found a backdoor work around that will allow you to
just that. Wow!

Quilt-Pro 3:

The backdoor to use the rotary
cutter is to export drawn circles, ellipses, and patches drawn with the the
freehand and bezier curves that have been joined. In Quilt-Pro 3 the backdoor
does NOT work on the Arc or the Pie patches.

Quilt-Pro 4:

The
backdoor to use the rotary cutter is to export drawn circles, ellipses, and
pie shapes. In Quilt Pro 4 you can also use the backdoor to rotary cutter joined
patches created from arcs, bezier curves and freehand lines. This must be done
before the export/import function outlined below.

Quilt-Pro
3 and Quilt-Pro 4: Drawing Circles and Ellipses

1. Open Quilt Pro
or open a new workspace if Quilt Pro is running

2. In the Tool
Bar, select the Circle tool .

3.Draw a circle patch on your workspace. See Figure 1.

4. In
the Tool Bar, select the Ellipse tool .

5.
Draw an ellipse patch on your workspace. See Figure 1.

Figure 1. Circle and ellipse patches on workspace.

6. In the Tool
Bar, select the Select tool .
Select both patches by dragging the mouse cursor across the patches.

7. In the Edit menu, select Copy.

8. In the File menu, select Export. See Figure
2.

Figure 2. Export clipboard as metafile dialogue box.

Note:If you do not
have an Import and Export Folder under Quilt-Pro folder, it is easy
to create one after the dialogue box is open.

Click on the
Create New Folder Icon. A New Folder will appear.

Rename the folder Import and Export. Then continue on with
the exercise.

9. If not looking in at Import and Export folder, browse to
that folder. Use the drop down arrow and select Enhanced metafile
as Save as type and enter file name Oval-Circle.